What do you mean retake? It was never theirs to begin with.
Semantics , ok take
Okay, semantics.
I am not sure if China will ever be able to tame Taiwan peacefully. The southern native Taiwanese vs the northerners Chinese traitors are completely different people. It will become a guerrilla war of South vs North.
As for the geo ramifications, it will just become a proxy war between east vs west where only the innocent civilians suffer.
It would be a tragedy
If the natives had any balls, it would still be Formosa. The chinese traitors will flip as soon as it is obvious they lost -- it's what traitors do.
Nah, it's retake, unless you think that the CCP is somehow separate from China. They held it from the 17th century, until the Nips took it from them in the late 19th century. The nips held it a while, then the whole failed independent Formosa for a minute, and then the Losers from the Chinese civil war holed up there, which, if you are honest, means that it's still occupied by the Chinese. It's just a matter of which slants.
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